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Building a basic Jamstack webmail client with Vue 3

Vue 3 is going to be released soon and I wanted to see how easy it is to create the simples possible useful application with it. It turns out it's pretty easy with vue-cli and serverless tools! Here I share my findings.

Automate database backups with AWS Fargate, S3 and CDK

I love how Serverless enables simple solutions to common DevOps tasks: in this article I describe one simple way to automate MongoDB database backups using AWS Fargate, S3, and CDK.

Setup free WHOIS monitoring to avoid unwanted domain expirations with Serverless on AWS

A few days ago I forgot to renew one of my registered Internet domains which I believed was set to auto-renew and received a few alerts when affected services started to fail. I hence took the chance to setup a simple and free monitoring solution to avoid incurring again in this same problem once and for all. Powered by AWS CDK, Python and WhoisXML

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@themactep In that case the error message will have to point back to the first paragraph of the README. Sure, it can be done, but it might not be enough to fix the underlying issue I'm talking about

@themactep I don't think you should take every single step which is viable and potentially useful, engineering at its core is a constant process of making trade offs and over-engineering might cause even more headaches down the road (e.g. choosing the wrong abstractions).

So, if I get it right, your argument is that every process that can potentially be automated should be automated?

Take the VPN client as example: is it worth to add integrations for every possible arch/client combination?

@themactep for something easy to do programmatically, like check versions or connectivity, it might do.

Not every process though is easy to automate: how about cases like getting in possession of various auth tokens? or starting a VPN desktop client? You want to support various platforms too, eg Linux Windows and macOS.

Should the tool be responsible to install all dependencies? like the Go runtime and its env? what if the user is not using a default shell?

The rabbit hole goes deep...